Why God is not always known. Just as it is the nature of light to shine, so it is the nature of God to reveal himself. True, he hides himself from the wise and clever, but only because they are proud and do not want to know him; he reveals himself to 'babies', that is, to those humble enough to receive his self-disclosure ... The chief reason why people do not know God is not because he hides from them, but because they hide from him. --From "I Believe in Preaching" John R. W. Stott
Read moreThe question this week that begs for an answer is this: Is it just The Episcopal Church that has lost its way or is the Anglican Communion so severely compromised that a more
radical realignment is needed?
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August 2, 2007
MONEY.
It's the elixir that greases the wheels of The Episcopal Church (TEC) and allows them a seat at the Anglican Communion table regardless of what they believe. Consider the following:
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July 27, 2007
The numbers grow almost weekly.
Another Lambeth boycott threat has loomed, this time from none other than the mother ship herself. Up to 60 per cent of the Church of England's bishops might boycott Lambeth, according to one of the church's most senior bishops, reports the "London Times."
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7/19/2007
FOUR RETIRED EPISCOPAL BISHOPS stepped up to the plate this week and dared to ask Katharine Jefferts Schori, The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop and her attorney David Booth Beers, where the money is coming from to litigate all the orthodox parishes across the country wanting to leave the Episcopal Church.
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July 12, 2007
It is the calm before the storm. Across the Anglican Communion a huge debate is raging over whether or not a now drafted Covenant can hold the communion together.
Read moreTwo opposing views on whether the consecration of some eleven offshore bishops (to date) by African primates for American congregations is a good or bad thing, is now firmly on the table.
The first view, espoused by Dr. Peter Toon, argues that schism is in the very nature and ethos of American Christianity and is apparently incurable. Anglicans are not exempt from this virus and disease.
Read moreYou must ask in prayer, "Give me faith. Give me the love of Jesus. Give me humility." These things are all gifts. Only God can grant them. Pray. Pray. Pray. ---Gerontissa Makrina (+1995)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
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6/28/2007
It was another tumultuous week in the life of the Anglican Communion.
Read moreLeaders of the Episcopal Church meeting as the Executive Council this past week in Parsippany, NJ did what they were expected to do - raise the middle finger of defiance at the Anglican Communion, telling the Primates and Bishops of the worldwide body that they would not comply with the demands of Global South leaders to reverse or retract the church's liberal and revisionist positions on homosexuality, nor would they allow alternative supervision for disaffected orthodox Episcopalians.
Read moreOrthodox African Primates, orthodox Episcopal bishops and priests are coming together under the banner of Common Cause to make it happen.
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